Feature Request: add a settings section to create per-app shortcuts to click specific UI elements.

[YousufSSyed]

An alternative to pulling up the search bar and typing the name of an element to match, users should be able to pick any select-able element in an app (including ones that can't be searched and or don't have a label, if possible) and assign a hotkey to automatically click them. Here's what it could look like:

• A setting section called "shortcuts" where users could click a plus button to add a specific app which they want shortcuts on.
• Each app has their own heading section with all of the assigned shortcuts, and there's a plus button in each section to add a new shortcut.
• After the user presses that + button, the user is directed to the app in question, showing all the UI elements, including ones that can't be searched, and a user could click a specific one to assign a hotkey

These buttons in Activity Monitor can't be searched, but a user would be able to select them anyway.

• The user is directed back to the shortcuts section once they've picked an element.

Here's a rough text UI mockup:

[add app button]

Activity Monitor

[CPU] [CMD SHIFT B]
[Memory] [CMD SHIFT M]

[godbout]

sorry, completely missed this. but:

1. nah. not gonna do a whole other app for shorcuts lol

These buttons in Activity Monitor can't be searched, but a user would be able to select them anyway.

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ScreenFlow.mp4

you can hit anything through the search that Wooshy highlights!

[YousufSSyed]

1. Hotkeys for specific app elements would be much faster than using the search bar
2. It's been awhile since I used Wooshy so maybe I guess this was fixed.

[godbout]

got it, thanks. but nah, not gonna do shortcuts or labels. most probably as you've seen, for those cases, it's better to use a competitor: https://github.com/godbout/Wooshy.docs?tab=readme-ov-file#alternatives-to-wooshy

thanks for the report tho!

[YousufSSyed]

only one open source app on that list, and from before it became closed source

[godbout]

only one open source app on that list, and from before it became closed source

if you build one and make it open source then there's gonna be two!!!

[godbout]

2. It's been awhile since I used Wooshy so maybe I guess this was fixed.

btw if you're referring to The Inspector, it's been here since Wooshy alpha25: https://github.com/godbout/Wooshy.docs/releases/tag/1.a25

for some sort of labelling rather than searching, i'm still keeping this one open: #150
i'm not gonna add or change Wooshy to a label/hint mode, but maybe there's something smart to be done for when it's not clear what needs to be searched. (although tbh i built Wooshy as a search because for me i THINK of what i should type, i type, and it gets there. seems my brain is a Mac.)

[godbout]

reopening because a new issue on Scrolla is giving me ideas, and i've added a comment related to that on another of Wooshy's issue: #22 (comment)

would most probably require a database for Wooshy, which doesn't have any now, so that means a lot of work. but that may open the doors to a lot of new possibilities. wait and see.